this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
103 points (92.6% liked)

Technology

59598 readers
3551 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I don't know if it's just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens...?

Please do correct me or clarify this for me ๐ŸŒป

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Linux isn't free at the enterprise level. You aren't just downloading a Linux flavor and slapping it on everything. There's going to be a support contract to cover if something weird happens an expert is on site to help fix it within 24hrs. There's going to be guarantees that if software does x it will work even with future os updates. Replacement hardware will be available and compatible as well.